what is most important

[ricksdisconnected]

whats the most important to you if only one were posible to have?
stock gear people.

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Even if I try to whittle it down to a dire minimalist choice, without quality examples of both in my possession I would just rather cross over to the mandolin and forget about playing guitar altogether

For everyone else, logic would dictate that you can't play your best with a cheap guitar, so you might as well get a good one and skimp on the amp if you have to.

BTW - here's a banana coin.

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[BlueX]

Smart a$$ remark would be good cheap guitar AND good cheap amp. However, I'm no smart a$$, so I say good guitar. That is the instrument I am playing, holding in my hand.
I can live with the cheap amp, at least for some time (done that some periods).

 

[junk notes]

This 'poll' has been done quite often with same results.
I think Nigel Tufnel posted like this:

$100 amp
$1000 guitar
__________
$100 tone

or

$1000 guitar
$100 amp
__________
$1100 tone

 

[fitz]

Good amp - no question.
I think it's easier to make a cheap guitar sound good, than it is to make a cheap amp sound any better.
I'd take my Hondo into the 6101, over my LP into the Crate - Any day.

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

Good players can make any guitar sound good.
But a great amp is most of your tone. Far more than the pups are providing.

 

[paul-e-mann]

A cheap guitar can be worked on and upgraded, an amp cant. I'll take a Squier and a Super Lead, make it a full stack!

 

[TheToneDig]

Amp but there is a major addition needed. The cheap guitar must be set up properly. If it's cheap and not set up properly then the cheap amp option is the way to go with an expensive guitar. However, even expensive guitars sometimes need proper setup. Meaning the full works, frets are level, intonation etc.

A well-setup guitar on a cheap amp will crush any bad setup guitar on a good amp all day long.

 

[Deftone]

Gibson Les Pauls used to be cheap, so did Marshall amps.

 

[ricksdisconnected]

Gibson Les Pauls used to be cheap, so did Marshall amps.

not compared to the current dollar value of the same era.

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

Gibson Les Pauls used to be cheap, so did Marshall amps.

That ship has sailed,....and sunk.

 

[Frodebro]

Give me the good guitar any day of the week.

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Gibson Les Pauls used to be cheap, so did Marshall amps.

I'd say they're a little less expensive today, if anything.

 

[Biff Maloy]

Good guitar. You know a good one before you plug it in.

 

[C-Grin]

Cheap meaning what? Do I get to work on the guitar or swap a speaker?

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Cheap meaning what? Do I get to work on the guitar or swap a speaker?

FWIW, my original answer was based on the notion that, No.

Because, (and it stands to reason that), if the guitar or amp in question is cheap, but then you start including all the upgrades you could do to it, well then it's no longer a "cheap" guitar or amp, which negates the entire point of the original question.

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[C-Grin]

FWIW, my original answer was based on the notion that, No.

Because, (and it stands to reason that), if the guitar or amp in question is cheap, but then you start including all the upgrades you could do to it, well then it's no longer a "cheap" guitar or amp, which negates the entire point of the original question.

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OK fair enough, but....
lets just say for arguments sake I could buy a used crate Flexwave 15 for 25$ (which I did ) and put a used WGS speaker I got for 25$ would that be cheap? if I took a Epi lp special p90 which actually sounds pretty good and slide a 6$ set of magnets it the pups would that still be cheap?

 

[fitz]

OK fair enough, but....
lets just say for arguments sake I could buy a used crate Flexwave 15 for 25$ (which I did ) and put a used WGS speaker I got for 25$ would that be cheap? if I took a Epi lp special p90 which actually sounds pretty good and slide a 6$ set of magnets it the pups would that still be cheap?

OK, lets put this in perspective:
Would you rather play a $5000 Custom Shop LP through your $50 modded Crate, or your Epi w/ $6 magnets through a $5000 JCM800 2203/1960A-B stack?
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I'm going Epi & 2203, all day.

 

[ricksdisconnected]

FWIW, my original answer was based on the notion that, No.
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BINGO.

 

[Geeze]

Amp is king - it delivers the tone.

No disrespect to the 'economy minded' but I'm after good gear to make great sounds. I've never been happy with budget level gear.

Russ